There have been several films that have “borrowed” from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the most notable being The Magnificent Seven by Preston Sturges, but I doubt even Kurosawa could have dreamed someone would take his premise and re-imagine it with aliens, laser battles and a spaceship with large breasts.
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Superman III (1983) – Review
With the worldwide success of Superman and Superman II the obvious direction to take this blossoming franchise was to sideline the title character and focus the bulk of the story on a stand-up comic turned actor, and sure, that sounds crazy as well as incredibly stupid but what do I know, I’m not a movie…
Demon Seed (1977) – Review
Computers turning against man is certainly nothing new to the movies; we had the rogue HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then in the 80s we got Skynet trying to wipe out mankind in James Cameron’s The Terminator, and more recently, Leigh Whannell’s film Upgrade tackled a computer system with its own…
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. “The Finny Foot Affair” (1964) – Review
The popularity of the James Bond films lead to one of the best espionage action shows on television in the form of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. which had a tone that ran from taught thriller to almost campy fun, but midway through season one, we got a delightful blend of serious spy action with a…